Excerpt from Contributions to the Mechanism of Natural and Morbid Parturition: Including That of Placenta Praevia; With an Appendix This work consists of a collection of scattered papers (now chapters), written at various times, and published in various British and German journals. They are all devoted to the descrip tion and explanation of points in the mechanism of parturition. A few of them have already appeared in a collected form in the Author's work entitled, Researches in Obstetrics; and their reappearance here is called for by two considerations, namely, - the desire of the Author to have his writings on mechanism in one volume, and his desire to have further diffusion of the reprinted papers than is obtain able by their forming part of the Researches, a volume which will probably soon be out of print. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.